WHAT’S TRENDING AND HOW? PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL IMPLICATIONS OF...IAEME Publication
From ancient cave paintings ,Asoka’s Pillar Inscriptions to Cicero’s web of ancient Rome and
now to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook the basic theme of mass communication has remained pretty
much the same , what’s changed however is the speed, the way and hence the impact. This brings
us to a paradox, its simpler because somewhere it’s all complex. So it’s increasingly becoming
difficult to distinguish between news from propaganda, subtle manipulation from brainwashing,
and information from advertising, ideologies from hate crimes.
So, who decides what’s trending and how that impacts life and perspectives about human life?
What’s real and what’s not??
And Why That Matters?!!
WHAT’S TRENDING AND HOW? PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL IMPLICATIONS OF...IAEME Publication
From ancient cave paintings ,Asoka’s Pillar Inscriptions to Cicero’s web of ancient Rome and
now to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook the basic theme of mass communication has remained pretty
much the same , what’s changed however is the speed, the way and hence the impact. This brings
us to a paradox, its simpler because somewhere it’s all complex. So it’s increasingly becoming
difficult to distinguish between news from propaganda, subtle manipulation from brainwashing,
and information from advertising, ideologies from hate crimes.
So, who decides what’s trending and how that impacts life and perspectives about human life?
What’s real and what’s not??
And Why That Matters?!!
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
Technology in the End Times, an overview of large technology trends that have deep spiritual and societal implications and the rapid rise of technocratic atheism.
A fun think piece on possible futures for AI and its potential range of relationships with humanity - written in response to a request by editors at Critical Muslim to provide an AI-focussed version of their regular feature, "The List." Thanks to Zia Sardar.
This presentation was given during the Substantive Session of the ECOSOC 2013 meeting, Geneva Switzerland to show the affordable, accessible and appropriate tools making a difference in the lives of United Methodists in the developing world.
Dan Faggella - TEDx Slides 2015 - Artificial intelligence and ConsciousnessDaniel Faggella
URL of the original TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjiZbMhqqTM
Notes from my 2015 TEDx presentation, titled: "We Should Wake Up Before The Machines Do," on the topic of artificial intelligence and consciousness.
Speaker: Daniel Faggella
Location: Southern New Hampshire University
Be here when - communities and how they use technology to design themselvesJohn David Smith
Using the example of a church that is both a community and an organization to examine how technology shapes identity, togetherness, and competence. Brings together Hidalgo's framework on computation with Wenger's community of practice theory. Discusses how organizations can be intimately intertwined with the communities that they serve.
GK Media Masters Presentation at New Media Literacies ConferenceGlobal Kids
A presentation by GK's Rafi Santo and Shawna Rosenzweig about the Media Masters program, a collaboration with MIT's Project New Media Literacies, led by Henry Jenkins. It was presented at the conference "Learning in a Participatory Culture", held by Project NML at MIT on 5/2/09.
For full effect, view with notes.
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
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A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
Technology in the End Times, an overview of large technology trends that have deep spiritual and societal implications and the rapid rise of technocratic atheism.
A fun think piece on possible futures for AI and its potential range of relationships with humanity - written in response to a request by editors at Critical Muslim to provide an AI-focussed version of their regular feature, "The List." Thanks to Zia Sardar.
This presentation was given during the Substantive Session of the ECOSOC 2013 meeting, Geneva Switzerland to show the affordable, accessible and appropriate tools making a difference in the lives of United Methodists in the developing world.
Dan Faggella - TEDx Slides 2015 - Artificial intelligence and ConsciousnessDaniel Faggella
URL of the original TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjiZbMhqqTM
Notes from my 2015 TEDx presentation, titled: "We Should Wake Up Before The Machines Do," on the topic of artificial intelligence and consciousness.
Speaker: Daniel Faggella
Location: Southern New Hampshire University
Be here when - communities and how they use technology to design themselvesJohn David Smith
Using the example of a church that is both a community and an organization to examine how technology shapes identity, togetherness, and competence. Brings together Hidalgo's framework on computation with Wenger's community of practice theory. Discusses how organizations can be intimately intertwined with the communities that they serve.
GK Media Masters Presentation at New Media Literacies ConferenceGlobal Kids
A presentation by GK's Rafi Santo and Shawna Rosenzweig about the Media Masters program, a collaboration with MIT's Project New Media Literacies, led by Henry Jenkins. It was presented at the conference "Learning in a Participatory Culture", held by Project NML at MIT on 5/2/09.
For full effect, view with notes.
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
Presentation made by David Wood on 2nd October 2021 to the London Futurists event "A new future for politics?" This includes 15 possible policies for mayoral campaigns in major cities in the UK in 2024.
A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
David Traub (Epiphany Film Fund): VR, AR and Life: The Inevitable - And Hopef...AugmentedWorldExpo
A talk from the Consumer Track at AWE USA 2017 - the largest conference for AR+VR in Santa Clara, California May 31- June 2, 2017.
David Traub (Epiphany Film Fund): VR, AR and Life: The Inevitable - And Hopeful - Integration
Technology is neither good nor bad: its how you use it. As low cost, ever higher fidelity immersive interfaces - VR, AR increasingly MR - continue their race to organic integration within our lives, the question is increasingly asked: what does these intrusions do to our authentic 'humanness" - and our pursuit for a higher quality of life for all? And accordingly, where do the greatest opportunities for both financial and social ROI lay? This panel (or presentation) will address the psychology, sociology and digital anthropology of immersion - and how these new increasingly powerful tools of persuasion are likely to be integrated into our consciousness, both irresponsibly, and ideally for the better.
http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com
The reality is that content in today's digital world is growing exponentially year over year for every organization. To explore, expose, extract, and express the most relevant content and to produce the most value from it requires that content experiences a constantly evolving collaboration between humans and computing technology. This presentation explores the importance of content strategy in the "age of digital transformation".
The value of being human - finding balance between the artificial and nature ...Salema Veliu
A short opinion piece based upon a panel discussion l gave at the International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS20). Exploring the societal and individual implications of Technology. Proposing how a revisiting and embodiment of certain eastern philosophies that help ground us in the nature world provide the balance to the artificial world we are creating. Understanding our previous, present and future relationships and behaviours with a higher intelligence may yet help us create a more accountable and holistic framework for Ai as echoed by the WEF.
Change is a constant
Society is transforming. Powerful trends are reshaping businesses, driving new technologies, shifting talent needs, and changing human behaviour. It is crucial for all industries to stay up to date with these changes, and respond accordingly.
We’ve mapped these trends for over 20 years by collaborating with industry leaders across the world. We use the insights to shape our programs, so that our talented students meet market demand. With these reports we are sharing our insights with the world.
This is the second issue of the trend report Changes of Tomorrow. It builds on the first report released in Spring 2015. The focus stays the same with four themes framing the research, and we’ve collaborated to define new trends and update existing ones.
Regardless of your industry, it’s essential to consider the impact of these changes on your work. The “Reflect” sections at the end of each trend will help you do that. You will also find tips, tools, and methods to support you to stay up to date and lead the change.
School libraries are at the heart of a new digital learning nexus. Our world changed in April 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public. The challenges we face are equally creative as they are complex. What is your focus for tomorrow?
Through yourself away from the rigmarole of your tough duty for few days, throw in some fun and you are like a school big school boy/girl on a school trip. This will lead you to make your Knowledge sharper & focused.
Srini and MJ talk about potential applications of IoT and the evolution over the next few years - This is one of the thought leadership papers produced by the NTT Innovation Institute in 2014
The annotated slides from a webinar I presented for http://www.pkids.org about social media and public health . Links to the recording archive are listed in the first slide notes.
Information Overload in the Attention EconomyOlivier Serrat
Information has become ubiquitous because producing, manipulating, and disseminating it is now cheap and easy. But might perceptions of information overload have less to do with quantity than with the qualities by which knowledge is presented?
An introduction to the value of social media in the world of aquatics programming. This presentation and information will be useful for people starting in social media for work - the information is high level and provides a start for further exploration.
In this session, we talk about the mobile and social web, and how it shapes economy, individual behavior and well-being, political events, and society as a whole.
Mobile Mastery ebook - Nokia - #SmarterEverydayNokia
Mobile - being connected everywhere to everything and everyone - is the fact of modern life. It defines how we live, how we work, how we communicate and how the world runs. It is the tool we reach for first when we are faced with challenges big and small in our everyday lives.
But despite the rapid pace with which we’ve adopted it, we’re still learning the best and most effective ways to use mobile technology, how to make the most of the opportunities and how to avoid the pitfalls.
That is what mobile mastery is about – gaining the skills and knowledge we need to work with technology in a productive, efficient and beneficial way.
For more #SmarterEveryday content follow us @NokiaAtWork
Fast isn't fast enough. (an e-book written and created in three hours)edward boches
Welcome to the second annual “We Wrote a Book in Three
Hours” exercise. To test their creativity, content generating
prowess, collaborative skills and ability to think fast, I asked
students in Strategic Creative Development (a course at Boston
University’s College of Communication) to conceive, write,
sketch and produce this little ebook in three hours. Give or
take a couple of minutes. They had no idea where it would
take them or how they would get there. But here it is. Some
thoughts about who they are as a generation, how they’ve
embraced the age of digital disruption and what it means as
they exit their college years and enter
I have provided a methodology for PR people to keep up-to-date with new things that are going to be important in the near future. I shall be adding content to it for the next couple of months.
The practice of PR has changed. This slideshow offers a view of the basics that every PR consultant should offer clients for 2012.
Probably the most exciting part of the presentation is the list of URL's at the end... Nice way to be very motivated.
RMD24 | Retail media: hoe zet je dit in als je geen AH of Unilever bent? Heid...BBPMedia1
Grote partijen zijn al een tijdje onderweg met retail media. Ondertussen worden in dit domein ook de kansen zichtbaar voor andere spelers in de markt. Maar met die kansen ontstaan ook vragen: Zelf retail media worden of erop adverteren? In welke fase van de funnel past het en hoe integreer je het in een mediaplan? Wat is nu precies het verschil met marketplaces en Programmatic ads? In dit half uur beslechten we de dilemma's en krijg je antwoorden op wanneer het voor jou tijd is om de volgende stap te zetten.
Falcon stands out as a top-tier P2P Invoice Discounting platform in India, bridging esteemed blue-chip companies and eager investors. Our goal is to transform the investment landscape in India by establishing a comprehensive destination for borrowers and investors with diverse profiles and needs, all while minimizing risk. What sets Falcon apart is the elimination of intermediaries such as commercial banks and depository institutions, allowing investors to enjoy higher yields.
Enterprise Excellence is Inclusive Excellence.pdfKaiNexus
Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
What is Enterprise Excellence?
Enterprise Excellence is a holistic approach that's aimed at achieving world-class performance across all aspects of the organization.
What might I learn?
A way to engage all in creating Inclusive Excellence. Lessons from the US military and their parallels to the story of Harry Potter. How belt systems and CI teams can destroy inclusive practices. How leadership language invites people to the party. There are three things leaders can do to engage everyone every day: maximizing psychological safety to create environments where folks learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo.
Who might benefit? Anyone and everyone leading folks from the shop floor to top floor.
Dr. William Harvey is a seasoned Operations Leader with extensive experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, and operations management. At Michelman, he currently oversees multiple sites, leading teams in strategic planning and coaching/practicing continuous improvement. William is set to start his eighth year of teaching at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches marketing, finance, and management. William holds various certifications in change management, quality, leadership, operational excellence, team building, and DiSC, among others.
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HR recruiter services offer top talents to companies according to their specific needs. They handle all recruitment tasks from job posting to onboarding and help companies concentrate on their business growth. With their expertise and years of experience, they streamline the hiring process and save time and resources for the company.
Remote sensing and monitoring are changing the mining industry for the better. These are providing innovative solutions to long-standing challenges. Those related to exploration, extraction, and overall environmental management by mining technology companies Odisha. These technologies make use of satellite imaging, aerial photography and sensors to collect data that might be inaccessible or from hazardous locations. With the use of this technology, mining operations are becoming increasingly efficient. Let us gain more insight into the key aspects associated with remote sensing and monitoring when it comes to mining.
India Orthopedic Devices Market: Unlocking Growth Secrets, Trends and Develop...Kumar Satyam
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The world of search engine optimization (SEO) is buzzing with discussions after Google confirmed that around 2,500 leaked internal documents related to its Search feature are indeed authentic. The revelation has sparked significant concerns within the SEO community. The leaked documents were initially reported by SEO experts Rand Fishkin and Mike King, igniting widespread analysis and discourse. For More Info:- https://news.arihantwebtech.com/search-disrupted-googles-leaked-documents-rock-the-seo-world/
2. Why is it important? Online public relations and social media isnot technology it is evolutionary physiology Its about being human The internet is a thing of human need not digital development We love the internet because it satisfies what people want in life. It is the temple of human values PR is its priesthood, social media expertise is its handmaiden 2
3. Our objectives today Perhaps it will help to discover why people like the internet so much. We can look at human evolution and psychology. Understand what drives people to use social media See why this revolution is about public relations Recognisethe techniques that are common to all online activity Translate that into strategies Examine tactical approaches 3
4. Human evolution and the internet We have big brains, a pre-requisite for inventiveness Inventiveness , a function of complex language, communication and culture , led to cutting tools, bows and arrows – very complicated technology to make life easier and support the species. 38000 years ago the big leap in language development… made us modern man 4
5. The trick is not to wait for the DNA catch-up Humans are the only known species to build fires, cook their food, clothe themselves, and use numerous other technologies. We speak to each other read and write across the world, across generations and to accumulate knowledge. We have evolved so that we don’t need to change our DNA to adopt new survival techniques As a result, we are completely dependant on tools and machines for survival. 5
6. Clever, cultured communicative animal Having evolved a large and complex brain, our species has a facility to think, imagine, create, and learn from experience that far exceeds that of any other species. We have evolved to be dependant on this ability to create technologies, literary and artistic works on a vast scale, and to develop a scientific understanding of ourselves and the world. 6
7. We are ‘hard wired’ to adapt The claim that there is an adaptationist explanation for specifically human intelligence rests on two ideas: firstly, that human intelligence is a complex adaptive trait, and secondly, that natural selection is the major source of complex adaptive traits. 7
8. We don’t know everything Human intelligence is not a general-purpose capacity for rational thought but is instead a ‘tool box’ consisting of a very large number of task-specific tools, each of which has the evolved function of producing an adaptive response to some specific adaptive problem that our hominid ancestors faced in the Pleistocene. How does an African populate the arctic? By being pre-programmed to be adaptive. 8
9. The ‘tool box’ is past to the next generation in books! Because many complex skills and behaviors are being passed on through culture, the species has escaped the need to encode them rigidly in its genome. "Of course the mechanisms of selection are operating," says AjitVarki, “We don't necessarily fix our behaviors, and we are letting some previously fixed behaviors deteriorate, because we can rely on cultural transmission", he adds. http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090211/full/457776a.html 9
10. We can invent our way out bad mutations GileanMcVean: the human ability to learn and adapt has eased the selection pressure . A modern example, he points out, might be the ability of humans to make spectacles to counteract poor vision – we have cheated the evolutionary norm of natural selection to weed out the human strain likely to have poor eyesight. http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090211/full/457776a.html What we have done is to learn how to extend our physiology. We like to travel (early man evolved to run longer than most other animals as the means to wear down his prey, to travel to places where adaptive behaviour can flourish and thus we populated most of the world). Is it then a surprise we extended our physiology by inventing a bike, train or plane? 10
11. The cumulative effect Human culture, has the distinctive characteristic that it accumulates modifications over time (called the ‘ratchet effect’). This difference results from the facts that human social learning is more oriented towards process than product unique forms of human cooperation lead to active teaching, social motivations for conformity and normative sanctions against non-conformity. Together, these unique processes of social learning and cooperation lead to humans’ unique form of cumulative cultural evolution. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1528/2405.full The result: We can ‘evolve faster and fast at an accelerating pace 11
12. What does this mean today This gives us a human line that can be more social (using letters, books, telephones , Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter We can access more information using the internet – Google is part of the evolution of our mental physiology because it gives us a bigger ‘memory’. We can develop more technologies, arts and interfaces (even better than bows and arrows) faster and to serve not just a minority but all people. 12
13. The internet scratches the evolutionary itch This human species is programmed to be adaptive and create adaptionist tools. This is not for a ‘techie elite’ it is part of what makes everyone of us ‘human.’ The internet (and social media) is made in the image of mankind, by mankind for mankind 13
14. Why is this important for PR PR, being about the spread of values, knowledge and the development of relationships round values and knowledge Modern Humans have created the internet which above everything else exposes values and knowledge and opens channels to build relationships The internet and social media has evolved to be the symbiotic partner for PR (as long as PR can keep up). 14
15. Lets get comfortable The internet is not technology it is the tool of human evolution The internet is about being human. We have evolved to create the internet The internet is part of our DNA driven development That is why peoples like it, use it, develop it and make it evolve at an ever growing pace so that humans don’t have to wait for our DNA to change. 15
16. OK... So what is PR’s role Take out of the evolution of the internet the things that evolution says is important for human survival Develop the internet to help us deliver what our destiny (our DNA) needs Believe that our profession is EXACTLY designed to do this Get on with it! 16
17. Where have we got to? We now know enough about the internet to know what the present level of internet evolution can deliver. Lets no longer wonder at the stars and, instead navigate by them. Lets look at the strategic and tactical developments that are within our (evolved) and the internet (evolved) capabilities in this generation. 17
18. Priestly Strategies We know that there are some strategies we need to consider (because we are human). Monitor to get a good view of the landscape we inhabit. Use monitoring as a tool to see the present. Examine the values of our organisations and the values of the communities that affect our organisations Find symbiotic drivers to aid community building and understanding (which does lead to closer imperatives such as sales, votes, recruitment, vendor relations etc) ... Cont... 18
19. More Priestly Strategies Strategies cont... Look to protect us and ours and have good defensive strategies (Humanid evolution included defences for everything from disease to psychological responses to threats) Re-define the culture of our organisation and its the culture of relationships with publics (Aristotle would be proud) Restate strategies into (SMART?) objectives 19
20. Why do we know this is the right way? Mostly because it panders to the evolved human We have 30 years experience of success and failure in using social media 20
21. The handmaiden’s tactics Rules Be very broad in what you consider You will follow the crowd and still have space to be intriguing (e.g. Creative) Poke around in other people’s territory (web site building, SEO, widgets, games, search and monitoring etc). Look for integration 21
22. Is it Twitter of Facebook? Get over it..... It may not be either Use the best tools to deliver on your strategic objectives Mix-n-match – humans are all over the world, are individual and have many ‘selves’ such as child, mother, sibling, friend, colleague and even mate down the pub.... Txt is not Twitter and mom may never have a Linkedin profile 22
23. At the end of the day Now be convinced – this is fundamentally about PR and how PR represents the Priesthood of Modern Man Online public relations and social media is not technology it is evolutionary physiology Its about being human The internet is a thing of human need not digital development We love the internet because it satisfies what people want in life. It is the temple of human values PR is its priesthood, social media expertise is its handmaiden 23